{"id":528131,"date":"2026-06-25T04:32:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T02:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unipi.it\/ateneo\/organizzazione\/persone\/carla-benedetti-5613-en\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T04:32:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T02:32:15","slug":"carla-benedetti-5613-en","status":"publish","type":"unipi_persone","link":"https:\/\/www.unipi.it\/en\/about-us\/organisation\/people\/carla-benedetti-5613-en\/","title":{"rendered":"Carla Benedetti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professore Emerito &#8211; Dipartimento di Filologia, Letteratura e Linguistica | Tel.: 050 2215069 &#8211; Email: carla.benedetti@unipi.it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"unipi-persone-chiave":"5613","unipi-persone-nome":"Carla","unipi-persone-cognome":"Benedetti","unipi-persone-email":"carla.benedetti@unipi.it","unipi-persone-cv":"Carla Benedetti is Professor of Italian Modern and Contemporary Literature at the University of Pisa.  <br \/>\r\nShe has been Visiting Professor of Italian at New York University in Fall 2001 and 2002, at the University of Chicago in Spring 2010 and at Berkeley University of California in Fall 2013.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\n    Other appointments:<br \/>\r\nFellow of the Italian Academy at Columbia University in 2003-4.<br \/>\r\nMember of the editorial board of the Edinburgh Journal of Gadda's Studies<br \/>\r\nCo-director of \"Studi gaddiani\", published by ETS<br \/>\r\nCo-director of the review \"Il primo amore\"<br \/>\r\nColumnist of the magazine \"L'Espresso\"<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\n    Educational Background<br \/>\r\nPh. D,  Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, 1984, dissertation title: \"De la subjectivit\u00e8 dans le r\u00e9cit. Trois mod\u00e8les d'\u00e9nonciation narrative\"<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\n    Principal Publications<br \/>\r\n    1. Books<br \/>\r\n- \"La soggettivit\u00e0 nel racconto. Proust e Svevo\" (Liguori, 1984)<br \/>\r\n- \"Pasolini contro Calvino\" (Bollati Boringhieri, 1998)<br \/>\r\n- \"La visione. Una conversazione con Antonio Moresco\" (KKP, 1999)<br \/>\r\n- \"L'ombra lunga dell'autore. Indagine su una figura cancellata\" (Feltrinelli, 1999)<br \/>\r\n- \"Il tradimento dei critici\" (Bollati Boringhieri, 2002)<br \/>\r\n- \"The Empty Cage. Inquiry into the Mysterious Disappearence of the Author\" (Cornell University Press, 2005 -  Enlish translation  of \"L'ombra lunga dell'autore\", by Will Hartley) <br \/>\r\n- Mario Maccherini, \"Carla Benedetti\" (An interview book), Coniglio Editore, 2007<br \/>\r\n- \"Disumane lettere. Indagini sulla cultura della nostra epoca\", Laterza 2011<br \/>\r\n- Carla Benedetti, Giovanni Giovannetti, \"Frocio e basta\". Pasolini , Cefis, Petrolio, Effigie 2012; seconda ediz. accresciuta,<br \/>\r\n 2016<br \/>\r\n- Carla Benedetti, Maurizio Bettini, \"Oracoli che sbagliano. Dialogo sugli antichi e sui moderni\", Effigie 2016<br \/>\r\n     <br \/>\r\n2. Articles and Chapters in Books<br \/>\r\n- \"Habermas e la pragmatica. Tra convenzionalismo e trascendentalismo\", in \"Fondazione e critica della comunicazione, Studi su J. Habermas\", a  cura di M. Ostinelli e V. Pedroni, Angeli, 1992, pp.140-57.<br \/>\r\n- \"Come comunichiamo sul mondo\", in \"Figure del paradosso. Filosofia e teoria dei sistemi\" 2, a cura di R. Genovese, Liguori, 1992, pp. 173-224.<br \/>\r\n- \"I generi nella modernit\u00e0\", in Studi offerti a Luigi Blasucci, a cura di L. Lugnani, M. Santagata e A. Stussi, Pacini Fazzi, 1996, pp. 51-75.<br \/>\r\n- \" The Enigma of Grief: An Expressionism against the Self\", in \"Carlo Emilio Gadda. Contemporary Perspective\"s, edited by M. Bertone e R. S. Dombroski,  University of Toronto Press, 1997, pp. 159-176.<br \/>\r\n- \u201cIl revival della modernit\u00e0\u201d, introduzione all\u2019ediz. italiana di  F. Jameson, \"Modernit\u00e0 singolar\"e,  Sansoni, 2003, pp. 7-21<br \/>\r\n- \u201cQuattro porte su \u2018Petrolio\u2019 di Pasolini\u201d, in \"Progetto Petrolio\" (Cronopio, 2003)<br \/>\r\n- \"Gadda. Meditazione e racconto\", a cura di Carla Benedetti, Cristina Savettieri, Lucio Lugnani (ETS, 2005).<br \/>\r\n- \"Bestiario\", Introduzione a Giuseppe Bartolini, \"Dipinti 1999-2006\", Lubrina,2006, pp.  5-10.<br \/>\r\n- \"Genocidio culturale\",\"Cosa c'entra la letteratura popolare\" and \"La macchina e i funzionari\", in \"Best of 2006\", a cura di G. Mozzi, Minimum Fax, 2006.<br \/>\r\n- \"Batteri, animali, uomini\", in \"Il primo amore\" 2, 2007, pp. 71-90<br \/>\r\n- \"Perch\u00e9 si parla tanto di \"inesperienza\"?, in  \"L'Espresso\", 21 dicembre 2006.<br \/>\r\n- \"La coda della lucertola. Note contro Debord\", in Il primo amore, 1, 2007, pp. 15-28<br \/>\r\n- \"Scrittore ti faccio a pezzi\" (Sul nuovo fenomeno delle antologie di racconti), in l'Espresso\", 23 dicembre 2008<br \/>\r\n- \"Dopo la fine del mondo. Pier Paolo Pasolini e Alce Nero\", in AAVV, Apocalisse. Modernit\u00e0 e fine del mondo, a cura di Neil Novello, Liguori, 2008<br \/>\r\n- \"Le quattro forze di 'Gomorra' di Roberto Saviano\",  in Allegoria, 2, 2008 <br \/>\r\n- \"Le opere di genio\", in \"il primo amore\" n. 8, 2011<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\n   Fields of Specialization and Research<br \/>\r\nModern Italian and French literature <br \/>\r\nContemporary Italian literature <br \/>\r\nLiterary theory and aesthetics (literary genres, the function of the author, the sublime, modernity and post-modernism, theory of the novel)<br \/>\r\nTheory of communica","unipi-persone-modalita-ricevimento":"Verificare sempre in questa pagina eventuali modifiche dell'orario di ricevimento. In questo periodo il ricevimento in presenza \u00e8 sospeso. Per un colloquio online  scrivere una mail a carla.benedetti@unipi.it La piattaforma usata \u00e8 Teams. Su Moodle sono consultabili materiali per il corso e le registrazioni delle lezioni.","unipi-persone-luogo-ricevimento":"Palazzo Venera, via S. Maria 36, I piano","unipi-persone-ore-ricevimento":"GIOVED\u00ec ore 17.30-19.30","unipi-persone-telefono":"050 2215069","unipi-persone-link-orario-lezioni":"https:\/\/unipi.prod.up.cineca.it\/calendarioPubblico\/matricola=005104","unipi-persone-link-registro-lezioni":"https:\/\/unimap.unipi.it\/registri\/registri.php?ri=005104&tmplt=principale.tpl","unipi-persone-ruolo":"Professore Emerito","unipi-persone-arpi":"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/cris\/rp\/rp10951","unipi-persone-pubblicazioni":"<ul class=\"pubblicazioni-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1078860\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">La letteratura ci salver\u00e0 dall&#039;estinzione<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Benedetti, Carla - 2021 - 3.1 Monografia o trattato scientifico)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1094121\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">From Postmodernism to Anthropocene. Baptisms of an age without a name.<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Benedetti, Carla - 2020 - 2.1 Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio))<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1078857\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Siamo terrestri, Carla Benedetti e Bruno Latour in dialogo , in Il primo amore. Vol. 10: Siamo tutti terrestri<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Benedetti, Carla - 2020 - 2.1 Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio))<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1078851\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Quello che siamo prima di ogni altra cosa<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Benedetti, Carla - 2020 - 2.1 Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio))<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1078849\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">R\u00e9sister dans l&#039;Anthropoc\u00e8ne<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Benedetti, Carla - 2020 - 2.1 Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio))<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1033023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&quot;Petrolio&quot; venticinque anni dopo. Saggio introduttivo al volume<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Benedetti, Carla - 2020 - 2.1 Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio))<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1033027\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">L&#039;inaspettato<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Benedetti, Carla - 2019 - 2.1 Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio))<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1094130\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Confiss\u00e3o ou parr\u00e9sia? Pasolini, Foucault e o discurso de verdade<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Benedetti, Carla - 2018 - 2.1 Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio))<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/912553\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&quot;Acrobati del tempo\u201d.  Anders, Pasolini e l\u2019efficacia della profezia<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Benedetti, Carla - 2018 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/905972\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Confiss\u00e3o ou parr\u00e9sia? Pasolini, Foucault e o discurso de verdade<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Benedetti, Carla - 2018 - 2.1 Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio))<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/884552\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">P\u00e9d\u00e9, et c&#039;est tout. P\u00e9trole ou les dessous cach\u00e9s du meutre de Pasolini<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Benedetti, Carla; Giovannetti, Giovanni - 2017 - 3.1 Monografia o trattato scientifico)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/841392\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mondi dischiusi. Mostra di fotoscultura con opere di Patrizia Posillipo e Francesco Alessio<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Benedetti, Carla - 2016 - 7.1 Curatela)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/840322\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">L&#039;economia e il cosmo<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Benedetti, Carla - 2016 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/840315\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Premio Strega, gli stranieri non ridono<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Benedetti, Carla - 2016 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/836780\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Frocio e basta. Pasolini, Cefis, Petrolio. [II edizione ampliata]<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Benedetti, Carla; Giovannetti, G. - 2016 - 3.1 Monografia o trattato scientifico)<\/span><\/li><\/ul>","_wpml_word_count":"18"},"organizzazioni":[3638],"class_list":["post-528131","unipi_persone","type-unipi_persone","status-publish","hentry","organizzazioni-dipartimento-di-filologia-letteratura-e-linguistica-459999-en"],"email":"carla.benedetti@unipi.it","telefono":"050 2215069","content_plain":"Professore Emerito &#8211; Dipartimento di Filologia, Letteratura e Linguistica | Tel.: 050 2215069 &#8211; Email: carla.benedetti@unipi.it","photo_url":null,"ruoli_tags":[{"id":895,"name":"BG","slug":"bg"}],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Carla Benedetti ~ UNIPI<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unipi.it\/en\/about-us\/organisation\/people\/carla-benedetti-5613-en\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Carla Benedetti ~ UNIPI\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Professore Emerito &#8211; 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